Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.
Moodle.org is our community site where Moodle is made and discussed. Please use the menus to explore and join in!
Incorporating your existing handouts, worksheets, and other resources into Moodle courses
Quick methods to make your Moodle courses engaging, attractive, and fun
Fast ways to add multimedia to your course, or incorporate existing sounds and videos
Using Moodle as a repository for departmental guidelines and documentation
Moving marking online! You will see how students can submit their assignments right into Moodle, for you to mark or assess on the computer - no more backbreaking boxes of assignments to lug to and from school
Using forums and messaging to keep in contact with students when it's convenient, rather than having them call into your office during your breaks or preparation time
Moving 'discussion activities' into Moodle so that classes can work together even if they don't have much classroom time
Finally, making your course into a completely online experience - dispensing with face-time all together
Approach
With clear instructions and plenty of screenshots, this book provides all the support and guidance you will need as you begin to convert your teaching to Moodle. Step-by-step tutorials use real-world examples to show you how to convert to Moodle in the most efficient and effective ways possible. Moodle Course Conversion carefully illustrates how Moodle can be used to teach content and ideas and clearly demonstrates the advantages of doing so. . Who this book is written for?
This book is for teachers, tutors, and lecturers who already have a large body of teaching material and want to use Moodle to enhance their courses, rather than developing brand new ones. You won't need experience with Moodle, but will need teacher access to a ready installed Moodle site. .
Teachers with some experience of Moodle, who want to focus on incorporating existing course materials will also find this book very useful.
Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development: A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle [Paperback]
Understand what Moodle can do, how it compares to other e-learning packages, and how it can support your teaching strategies
Install the Moodle software on your own computer or a server, and understand your way around it
Know how to create different kinds of courses. Moodle can support courses where the group works through the classes with a shared schedule, or where individual students work through at their own pace, or courses where students are free to explore the different topics in their own time. This book will show you how.
Understand all of Moodle's learning features. Moodle provides features for managing course content, interactive resources, and social activities such as forums and wikis. This book explains what each of these features are, how they work, and most importantly how and when to use them effectively.
Manage students - so that you can ensure that the right students are going to the right classes; allow students to enrol themselves, or invite students to join a course. You can even set up commercial courses where students pay to sign
Approach
William Rice is an experienced trainer and expert on learning and teaching practices. This experience and expertise forms the foundation of his approach: What do we want to teach? How would this best translate into a course? How best can Moodle support these course objectives?
Of course, the book contains everything you'd expect from an introduction to Moodle: clear step-by-step instructions, plenty of screenshots, explanations and guides through the many features and options that you have to choose from. Throughout the book, William develops an example course. He uses this example to explore the sort of decisions, design considerations, and thought that goes into developing a successful course. Who this book is written for?
This book is for anyone who wants to get the best from Moodle. Beginners will get a thorough guide to how the software works, with great ideas for getting off to a good start with their first course. More experienced Moodlers will find powerful insights into developing more successful and educational courses.
Build a learning outcome-focused approach that enables your students to perform well
Different techniques for creating a dynamic learning environment
Put all the ideas you've wanted to implement, but never could, into action to create unique courses with reusable elements
Motivate your students to collaborate and demonstrate what they are learning and to create projects together
Develop materials you can re-use in your future courses
Incorporate Web 2.0 features to encourage student sharing of resources
Create online workshops and galleries for your students to make presentations about what they have learned
Build e-portfolios for students to collect their work and demonstrate mastery of the units
Engage your students in team work that helps them connect course content with their experiences and prior learning
Feel confident in finding ways to accommodate your students' learning styles and preferences to guide them to a successful outcome for the course
Develop high-quality courses that will last and stay useful and relevant to create a personal inventory you can use and re-use
Approach
This book contains clear guidance for all who want to put together effective online courses that motivate students and encourage dynamic learning. There are clear, step-by-step instructions with helpful screenshots and diagrams to guide you along the way. Who this book is written for
If you want to unleash your teaching talents and develop exciting, dynamic courses that really get students moving forward, then this book is for you. Experienced Moodlers who want to upgrade to Moodle 1.9 will find powerful insights into developing more successful and educational courses.
o Identify constraints or project limitations
The course design will not include navigational or interface design for the learning management system, only the course within the current version of Moodle during the design and development phase. All necessary adjustments to the course design due to Moodle system, technology change or course upgrade will be left to CSB and Creata Vivendi.
Calculator Constraints
Determined that the first two calculators that I ordered were not compatible. I have looked all over the net. Google searching for USB calculators. Incompatible interface design with electronic calculator. I also tried using inventory calculators. I will try to return products and start searching for the electronic calculator with ribbons AND USB ports tomorrow,
Software/ and/or hardware will need top be evaluated with the correct ten-key interface for touch key calculation
Hardware Choice # 1
Heavy Duty Calculator, 12 DGT Display, USB Connectivity, 4.6 LPS Printer VCT12807
$112.47
Product Description
Victor Calculator 1280-7 Heavy Duty Commercial Calculator with USB Connection Cable
Victor Heavy Duty Commercial 1280-7 works both as a stand-alone desktop printing calculator or connected to your PC allowing you to send your calculation results directly to your computer program for easy analysis in spreadsheets. Can also be used as a numeric entry keypad. Extra Large 12 Digit Fluorescent Display. Fast and Heavy Duty 4.6 LPS 2 Color Ribbon Printer. 2 Independent Tax Keys. Cost-Sell-Margin Keys. Time/Date Feature both displays and prints. 4 Key Independent Memory. Delta Percent-percent of change. Units Price Mode. Grand Total Function. Change Sign Key. Percent Key. Sigma Key. Item Count. Date/Non-Add Key. Backspace Keys. Includes USB Cable. Compatible with Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP. 3 Year Warranty, when other brands only offer a 6 month to one-year warranty.
Victor Heavy Duty Commercial 1280-7 works both as a stand-alone desktop printing calculator or connected to your PC allowing you to send your calculation results directly to your computer program for easy analysis in spreadsheets.
Can also be used as a numeric entry keypad.
Extra Large 12 Digit Fluorescent Display.
Fast and Heavy Duty 4.6 LPS 2 Color Ribbon Printer.
Hardware choice # 2
$19.99
Compucessory 12 digit display calculator with USB port model # 22082
12-Digit USB Calculator for Use at Home and Work http://www.nothingbutsoftware.com/catalog_type_page/ProductCode/125022
The Compucessory 12-Digit Display Calculator with PC Interface features a large liquid crystal display (LCD) for easy viewing. The calculator functions include tax rate calculation, cost-sell-margin calculation and backspace key. The calculator allows you to send calculation result to a PC, runs on solar power, and includes a USB cable.
12-digit Calculator has a Large Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
PC Interface
10-Key Keyboard for Notebook PC
Functions Include:
Tax Rate Calculation Function
Cost-Sell-Margin Calculation
Backspace Key
Send Calculation Result to a PC
Runs on Solar Power
Compucessory 12-Digit Display Calculator with USB Port
USB Cable
Color: Silver/Black
Dimensions: 5.5" x 7.5" x 1.5" (H x W x D)
Power Source: Solar / Power Adapter
Display: 12 Character - LCD
Calculator Feature: PC Link
Hardware Choice # 3
$10.20
Royal Machines K12 PC Calculator with Built-in 3 Port Hub and 12 Digit EZVue Display
SuperbCalc™ is a tape calculator software (also called "financial calculator", "desk calculator" or "adding machine") written in Java™. Doing calculations with SuperbCalc is as easy as with your classic tape calculator, but with more advanced features.
You have your tape of paper that gets written, showing you the full history of the calculations made, and you can print it with your printer, you can cut it and also throw it away.
But you can also insert comments, check/uncheck each line, copy & paste a single number or a whole tape into your preferred word processing or spreadsheet application, and more. With SuperbCalc you can correct the numbers directly in the tape, and it will automatically recalculate the whole tape!
Features
Calculations are made with arbitrary-precision signed decimal numbers matching the IEEE 754R standard (the maximum precision is 64 bits, corresponding to 15-16 significant digits).
It can use its full decimal precision or rounding with 0, 2, 3, 4 or 6 decimals.
Three rounding modes: down, half-up and up.
Percent calculations.
Memory functions.
Grand Total function.
Annotations can be made on every line of the tape.
Each line can be checked/unchecked. Four check symbols available of different colors.
The tape automatically expands to use all the space available on your screen and shows a scrollbar when there's no more space.
Two colors tape writing.
The SuperbCalc keyboard layout mimics your computer keyboard layout.
Main menu for easy access to all the functions.
Virtually unlimited tape length.
Virtually unlimited number of cut tapes on screen.
Tape printing, with print preview and page setup.
Save tape on a file, open a file in a new tape.
Clipboard operations, either with the single number on the display, a single line of the tape or the whole tape.
Saved files can be opened by most spreadsheets, specifying to use the TAB character as separator.
Saved files can be opened by most word processors, and tables can be automatically created from them.
Tapes copied in the clipboard can be pasted directly in most spreadsheets and word processors.
Integrated software update via Internet. Can use a proxy server.
The look and feel is configurable.
All the colors and fonts are configurable.
The numeric system used is configurable: European, Arabic, Devanagari and others (the fonts chosen must support it).
The locale is configurable.
The tape is editable, with automatic recalculation.
Note: SuperbCalc is a financial calculator (or accounting calculator), it's not meant to be used as a scientific calculator.
Usage
SuperbCalc can be operated with your computer keyboard using the numeric keypad and nearby keys. In fact, the SuperbCalc main interface mimics the right part of your keyboard, to help typing. There's no need to use the mouse for the most common operations (you can still use it if you want, though). A context menu shows all the available operations at a glance.
10-Key Plus is a full-featured tape calculator that can be used with any program. Cut and paste the results, create a running tape, and even print the results to a printer to attach to documents. Use a traditional 10-Key layout or a handheld calculator layout. Both have the look and feel of real calculators and interact with the mouse or keyboard for quick data entry.
FREE Unlimited Technical Support
FREE Unlimited Tax and Software Updates
Multi-User Site License for Asset Keeper (Standard)
Multi-User Site License for All Others (Available)
o Analyze subject matter o Identify time constraints April 7, 2011 launch date o Define Project Schedule o Identify costs associated with the project o Identify internal and external resources required Currently using the Monroe 7130 electronic calculator, will need a robust 10-key interface USB hardware in order to translate and electronic calculator to online learning. May need a software in addition to the hardware to give a receipt tape feel to the assignments. o Summarize conclusions related to objectives I recommend that the client consider the Victor Heavy Duty Commercial 1280-7 calculator for a possible hardware solution. If client prefers to keep hardware costs at a minimum, I would recommend changing the keypad interface in the book to be consistent with a standard desktop keyboard.
Analysis:
Project Analysis
o Analyze Moodle resources
http://moodle.org/
Welcome to the Moodle community!
Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.Moodle.org is our community site where Moodle is made and discussed. Please use the menus to explore and join in!
Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide [Paperback]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847195245/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DERIan Wild (Author)
Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide - Ian Wild; Paperback
What you will learn from this book?
- Incorporating your existing handouts, worksheets, and other resources into Moodle courses
- Quick methods to make your Moodle courses engaging, attractive, and fun
- Fast ways to add multimedia to your course, or incorporate existing sounds and videos
- Using Moodle as a repository for departmental guidelines and documentation
- Moving marking online! You will see how students can submit their assignments right into Moodle, for you to mark or assess on the computer - no more backbreaking boxes of assignments to lug to and from school
- Using forums and messaging to keep in contact with students when it's convenient, rather than having them call into your office during your breaks or preparation time
- Moving 'discussion activities' into Moodle so that classes can work together even if they don't have much classroom time
- Finally, making your course into a completely online experience - dispensing with face-time all together
ApproachWith clear instructions and plenty of screenshots, this book provides all the support and guidance you will need as you begin to convert your teaching to Moodle. Step-by-step tutorials use real-world examples to show you how to convert to Moodle in the most efficient and effective ways possible. Moodle Course Conversion carefully illustrates how Moodle can be used to teach content and ideas and clearly demonstrates the advantages of doing so. .
Who this book is written for?
This book is for teachers, tutors, and lecturers who already have a large body of teaching material and want to use Moodle to enhance their courses, rather than developing brand new ones. You won't need experience with Moodle, but will need teacher access to a ready installed Moodle site. .
Teachers with some experience of Moodle, who want to focus on incorporating existing course materials will also find this book very useful.
Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development: A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle [Paperback]
William RiceWilliam Rice (Author)
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Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development: A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle - William Rice; Paperback
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847193536/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Once you read this book, you will:
- Understand what Moodle can do, how it compares to other e-learning packages, and how it can support your teaching strategies
- Install the Moodle software on your own computer or a server, and understand your way around it
- Know how to create different kinds of courses. Moodle can support courses where the group works through the classes with a shared schedule, or where individual students work through at their own pace, or courses where students are free to explore the different topics in their own time. This book will show you how.
- Understand all of Moodle's learning features. Moodle provides features for managing course content, interactive resources, and social activities such as forums and wikis. This book explains what each of these features are, how they work, and most importantly how and when to use them effectively.
- Manage students - so that you can ensure that the right students are going to the right classes; allow students to enrol themselves, or invite students to join a course. You can even set up commercial courses where students pay to sign
ApproachWilliam Rice is an experienced trainer and expert on learning and teaching practices. This experience and expertise forms the foundation of his approach: What do we want to teach? How would this best translate into a course? How best can Moodle support these course objectives?
Of course, the book contains everything you'd expect from an introduction to Moodle: clear step-by-step instructions, plenty of screenshots, explanations and guides through the many features and options that you have to choose from. Throughout the book, William develops an example course. He uses this example to explore the sort of decisions, design considerations, and thought that goes into developing a successful course.
Who this book is written for?
This book is for anyone who wants to get the best from Moodle. Beginners will get a thorough guide to how the software works, with great ideas for getting off to a good start with their first course. More experienced Moodlers will find powerful insights into developing more successful and educational courses.
Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques [Paperback]
Susan Smith Nash (Author), William Rice (Author)http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1849510067/ref=ord_cart_shr
Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques - Susan Smith Nash; Paperback
What you will learn from this book
- Build a learning outcome-focused approach that enables your students to perform well
- Different techniques for creating a dynamic learning environment
- Put all the ideas you've wanted to implement, but never could, into action to create unique courses with reusable elements
- Motivate your students to collaborate and demonstrate what they are learning and to create projects together
- Develop materials you can re-use in your future courses
- Incorporate Web 2.0 features to encourage student sharing of resources
- Create online workshops and galleries for your students to make presentations about what they have learned
- Build e-portfolios for students to collect their work and demonstrate mastery of the units
- Engage your students in team work that helps them connect course content with their experiences and prior learning
- Feel confident in finding ways to accommodate your students' learning styles and preferences to guide them to a successful outcome for the course
- Develop high-quality courses that will last and stay useful and relevant to create a personal inventory you can use and re-use
ApproachThis book contains clear guidance for all who want to put together effective online courses that motivate students and encourage dynamic learning. There are clear, step-by-step instructions with helpful screenshots and diagrams to guide you along the way.
Who this book is written for
If you want to unleash your teaching talents and develop exciting, dynamic courses that really get students moving forward, then this book is for you. Experienced Moodlers who want to upgrade to Moodle 1.9 will find powerful insights into developing more successful and educational courses.
o Identify constraints or project limitations
The course design will not include navigational or interface design for the learning management system, only the course within the current version of Moodle during the design and development phase. All necessary adjustments to the course design due to Moodle system, technology change or course upgrade will be left to CSB and Creata Vivendi.Calculator Constraints
Determined that the first two calculators that I ordered were not compatible. I have looked all over the net. Google searching for USB calculators. Incompatible interface design with electronic calculator. I also tried using inventory calculators. I will try to return products and start searching for the electronic calculator with ribbons AND USB ports tomorrow,Software/ and/or hardware will need top be evaluated with the correct ten-key interface for touch key calculation
Hardware Choice # 1
Heavy Duty Calculator, 12 DGT Display, USB Connectivity, 4.6 LPS Printer VCT12807
$112.47
Product Description
Victor Calculator 1280-7 Heavy Duty Commercial Calculator with USB Connection CableVictor Heavy Duty Commercial 1280-7 works both as a stand-alone desktop printing calculator or connected to your PC allowing you to send your calculation results directly to your computer program for easy analysis in spreadsheets. Can also be used as a numeric entry keypad. Extra Large 12 Digit Fluorescent Display. Fast and Heavy Duty 4.6 LPS 2 Color Ribbon Printer. 2 Independent Tax Keys. Cost-Sell-Margin Keys. Time/Date Feature both displays and prints. 4 Key Independent Memory. Delta Percent-percent of change. Units Price Mode. Grand Total Function. Change Sign Key. Percent Key. Sigma Key. Item Count. Date/Non-Add Key. Backspace Keys. Includes USB Cable. Compatible with Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP. 3 Year Warranty, when other brands only offer a 6 month to one-year warranty.
Hardware choice # 2
$19.99Compucessory 12 digit display calculator with USB port model # 22082
12-Digit USB Calculator for Use at Home and Workhttp://www.nothingbutsoftware.com/catalog_type_page/ProductCode/125022
The Compucessory 12-Digit Display Calculator with PC Interface features a large liquid crystal display (LCD) for easy viewing. The calculator functions include tax rate calculation, cost-sell-margin calculation and backspace key. The calculator allows you to send calculation result to a PC, runs on solar power, and includes a USB cable.
Hardware Choice # 3
$10.20Royal Machines K12 PC Calculator with Built-in 3 Port Hub and 12 Digit EZVue Display
http://www.amazon.com/Royal-Machines-K12-Calculator-Display/dp/B000OREE74/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1290559812&sr=1-1Royal PC Keypad/calculator & 3 port hub
o Research existing solutions
Software Choice # 1
SuperbCalc tape calculator software
http://www.mariottini.net/roberto/superbcalc/#mozTocId969586SuperbCalc™ is a tape calculator software (also called "financial calculator", "desk calculator" or "adding machine") written in Java™. Doing calculations with SuperbCalc is as easy as with your classic tape calculator, but with more advanced features.
You have your tape of paper that gets written, showing you the full history of the calculations made, and you can print it with your printer, you can cut it and also throw it away.
But you can also insert comments, check/uncheck each line, copy & paste a single number or a whole tape into your preferred word processing or spreadsheet application, and more.
With SuperbCalc you can correct the numbers directly in the tape, and it will automatically recalculate the whole tape!
Features
- Calculations are made with arbitrary-precision signed decimal numbers matching the IEEE 754R standard (the maximum precision is 64 bits, corresponding to 15-16 significant digits).
- It can use its full decimal precision or rounding with 0, 2, 3, 4 or 6 decimals.
- Three rounding modes: down, half-up and up.
- Percent calculations.
- Memory functions.
- Grand Total function.
- Annotations can be made on every line of the tape.
- Each line can be checked/unchecked. Four check symbols available of different colors.
- The tape automatically expands to use all the space available on your screen and shows a scrollbar when there's no more space.
- Two colors tape writing.
- The SuperbCalc keyboard layout mimics your computer keyboard layout.
- Main menu for easy access to all the functions.
- Virtually unlimited tape length.
- Virtually unlimited number of cut tapes on screen.
- Tape printing, with print preview and page setup.
- Save tape on a file, open a file in a new tape.
- Clipboard operations, either with the single number on the display, a single line of the tape or the whole tape.
- Saved files can be opened by most spreadsheets, specifying to use the TAB character as separator.
- Saved files can be opened by most word processors, and tables can be automatically created from them.
- Tapes copied in the clipboard can be pasted directly in most spreadsheets and word processors.
- Integrated software update via Internet. Can use a proxy server.
- The look and feel is configurable.
- All the colors and fonts are configurable.
- The numeric system used is configurable: European, Arabic, Devanagari and others (the fonts chosen must support it).
- The locale is configurable.
- The tape is editable, with automatic recalculation.
Note: SuperbCalc is a financial calculator (or accounting calculator), it's not meant to be used as a scientific calculator.Usage
SuperbCalc can be operated with your computer keyboard using the numeric keypad and nearby keys. In fact, the SuperbCalc main interface mimics the right part of your keyboard, to help typing. There's no need to use the mouse for the most common operations (you can still use it if you want, though). A context menu shows all the available operations at a glance.Software Choice # 2
10-Key Plus
http://proware-cpa.biz/tkp-features.htmlVirtual Desktop Calculator
10-Key Plus is a full-featured tape calculator that can be used with any program. Cut and paste the results, create a running tape, and even print the results to a printer to attach to documents. Use a traditional 10-Key layout or a handheld calculator layout. Both have the look and feel of real calculators and interact with the mouse or keyboard for quick data entry.o Analyze subject matter
o Identify time constraints
April 7, 2011 launch date
o Define Project Schedule
o Identify costs associated with the project
o Identify internal and external resources required
Currently using the Monroe 7130 electronic calculator, will need a robust 10-key interface USB hardware in order to translate and electronic calculator to online learning.
May need a software in addition to the hardware to give a receipt tape feel to the assignments.
o Summarize conclusions related to objectives
I recommend that the client consider the Victor Heavy Duty Commercial 1280-7 calculator for a possible hardware solution. If client prefers to keep hardware costs at a minimum, I would recommend changing the keypad interface in the book to be consistent with a standard desktop keyboard.